| Rank
|
2006 rank
|
University
|
Country
|
| 1 |
1 |
Harvard University (Cambridge) |
 United States
|
| 2 |
2 |
University of Cambridge |
 United Kingdom
|
| 2 |
3 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom
|
| 2 |
4 |
Yale University |
United States
|
| 5 |
9 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom
|
| 6 |
10 |
Princeton University |
United States
|
| 7 |
7 |
California Institute of Technology |
United States
|
| 7 |
11 |
University of Chicago |
United States
|
| 9 |
25 |
University College London |
United Kingdom
|
| 10 |
4 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) |
United States
|
| 11 |
12 |
Columbia University (New York City) |
United States
|
| 12 |
21 |
McGill University |
 Canada
|
| 13 |
13 |
Duke University (Durham) |
United States
|
| 14 |
26 |
University of Pennsylvania |
United States
|
| 15 |
23 |
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) |
United States
|
| 16 |
16 |
Australian National University (Canberra) |
 Australia
|
| 17 |
19 |
University of Tokyo |
 Japan
|
| 18 |
33 |
University of Hong Kong |
 Hong Kong
|
| 19 |
6 |
Stanford University |
United States
|
| 20 |
35 |
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) |
United States
|
| 20 |
15 |
Cornell University (Ithaca) |
United States
|
| 22 |
8 |
University of California, Berkeley |
United States
|
| 23 |
33 |
Edinburgh University |
United Kingdom
|
| 24 |
46 |
King's College London |
United Kingdom
|
| 25 |
29 |
Kyoto University |
Japan
|
| 26 |
18 |
École Normale Supérieure |
 France
|
| 27 |
22 |
Melbourne University |
Australia
|
| 28 |
37 |
École Polytechnique (Paris) |
France
|
| 29 |
42 |
Northwestern University |
United States
|
| 30 |
40 |
Manchester University |
United Kingdom
|
| 31 |
35 |
Sydney University |
Australia
|
| 32 |
54 |
Brown University |
United States
|
| 33 |
50 |
University of British Columbia |
Canada
|
| 33 |
45 |
Queensland University |
Australia
|
| 33 |
19 |
National University of Singapore |
 Singapore
|
| 36 |
14 |
Peking University |
 China
|
| 37 |
64 |
Bristol University |
United Kingdom
|
| 38 |
50 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong
|
| 38 |
29 |
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) |
United States
|
| 40 |
28 |
Tsinghua University |
China
|
| 41 |
31 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
United States
|
| 42 |
24 |
ETH Zurich |
 Switzerland
|
| 43 |
38 |
Monash University |
Australia
|
| 44 |
41 |
University of New South Wales |
Australia
|
| 45 |
27 |
University of Toronto |
Canada
|
| 46 |
70 |
Osaka University |
Japan
|
| 47 |
66 |
Boston University |
United States
|
| 48 |
69 |
Amsterdam University |
 Netherlands
|
| 49 |
43 |
New York University |
United States
|
| 50 |
46 |
Auckland University |
 New Zealand
|
| 51 |
63 |
Seoul National University |
 South Korea
|
| 51 |
32 |
University of Texas at Austin |
United States
|
| 53 |
58 |
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Hong Kong
|
| 53 |
78 |
Trinity College Dublin |
 Ireland
|
| 55 |
84 |
University of Washington |
United States
|
| 55 |
79 |
University of Wisconsin–Madison |
United States
|
| 57 |
73 |
Warwick University |
United Kingdom
|
| 58 |
44 |
University of California, San Diego |
United States
|
| 59 |
17 |
London School of Economics |
United Kingdom
|
| 60 |
58 |
Heidelberg University |
 Germany
|
| 61 |
96 |
KU Leuven |
 Belgium
|
| 62 |
105 |
University of Adelaide |
Australia
|
| 63 |
86 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands
|
| 64 |
111 |
Western Australia University (Perth) |
Australia
|
| 65 |
90 |
Birmingham University |
United Kingdom
|
| 65 |
98 |
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Germany
|
| 67 |
82 |
Technische Universität München |
Germany
|
| 68 |
102 |
Sheffield University |
United Kingdom
|
| 69 |
61 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore
|
| 70 |
85 |
University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom
|
| 71 |
61 |
Dartmouth College |
United States
|
| 71 |
111 |
Uppsala University |
 Sweden
|
| 73 |
77 |
University of Illinois |
United States
|
| 74 |
56 |
Emory University |
United States
|
| 74 |
124 |
York University |
United Kingdom
|
| 76 |
109 |
St Andrews University |
United Kingdom
|
| 77 |
88 |
University of Pittsburgh |
United States
|
| 77 |
127 |
Purdue University |
United States
|
| 79 |
111 |
University of Maryland |
United States
|
| 80 |
121 |
Leeds University |
United Kingdom
|
| 80 |
141 |
Southampton University |
United Kingdom
|
| 82 |
53 |
Vanderbilt University |
United States
|
| 83 |
81 |
Glasgow University |
United Kingdom
|
| 84 |
90 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands
|
| 85 |
60 |
Case Western Reserve University |
United States
|
| 85 |
116 |
Fudan University |
China
|
| 87 |
87 |
Vienna University |
 Austria
|
| 88 |
176 |
Queen's University at Kingston |
Canada
|
| 89 |
95 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands
|
| 90 |
99 |
Pennsylvania State University |
United States
|
| 90 |
118 |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan
|
| 92 |
102 |
Rice University |
United States
|
| 93 |
54 |
Copenhagen University |
 Denmark
|
| 93 |
181 |
Montreal University |
Canada
|
| 95 |
48 |
University of Rochester |
United States
|
| 96 |
170 |
University of California, Davis |
United States
|
| 97 |
133 |
University of Alberta |
Canada
|
| 97 |
145 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
United States
|
| 99 |
141 |
Cardiff University |
United Kingdom
|
| 100 |
116 |
Helsinki University |
 Finland
|
| 101 |
139 |
Liverpool University |
United Kingdom
|
| 102 |
102 |
Georgetown University |
United States
|
| 102 |
108 |
National Taiwan University (Taipei) |
 Taiwan
|
| 102 |
168 |
Tohoku University |
Japan
|
| 105 |
39 |
Geneva University |
Switzerland
|
| 106 |
122 |
Lund University |
Sweden
|
| 107 |
211 |
University of Colorado |
United States
|
| 108 |
155 |
McMaster University |
Canada
|
| 109 |
132 |
Durham University |
United Kingdom
|
| 110 |
130 |
University of Virginia |
United States
|
| 111 |
172 |
Maastricht University |
Netherlands
|
| 112 |
128 |
Nagoya University |
Japan
|
| 112 |
204 |
Waterloo University |
Canada
|
| 114 |
126 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark
|
| 114 |
75 |
Basel University |
Switzerland
|
| 114 |
79 |
Otago University |
New Zealand
|
| 117 |
141 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
United States
|
| 117 |
64 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Switzerland
|
| 119 |
101 |
University of Southern California |
United States
|
| 120 |
219 |
Ohio State University |
United States
|
| 121 |
105 |
Sussex University |
United Kingdom
|
| 122 |
150 |
Texas A&M University |
United States
|
| 123 |
76 |
Université Catholique de Louvain |
Belgium
|
| 124 |
141 |
Ghent University |
Belgium
|
| 125 |
180 |
Nanjing University |
China
|
| 126 |
105 |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Germany
|
| 126 |
215 |
Western Ontario University |
Canada
|
| 128 |
119 |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
 Israel
|
| 129 |
133 |
Newcastle University |
United Kingdom
|
| 130 |
194 |
Technical University of Denmark |
Denmark
|
| 130 |
67 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands
|
| 132 |
198 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
South Korea
|
| 132 |
93 |
Université Pierre et Marie Curie |
France
|
| 134 |
224 |
University of Arizona (Tucson) |
United States
|
| 135 |
226 |
University of Florida (Gainesville) |
United States
|
| 136 |
128 |
Kyushu University |
Japan
|
| 137 |
195 |
Aberdeen University |
United Kingdom
|
| 137 |
232 |
Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington) |
United States
|
| 139 |
282 |
Simon Fraser University |
Canada
|
| 140 |
198 |
University of California, Irvine |
United States
|
| 140 |
109 |
University of Zurich |
Switzerland
|
| 142 |
187 |
University of Minnesota |
United States
|
| 142 |
170 |
Tübingen University |
Germany
|
| 144 |
219 |
Freiburg University |
Germany
|
| 145 |
153 |
University of Bath |
United Kingdom
|
| 146 |
149 |
Freie Universität Berlin |
Germany
|
| 147 |
228 |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom
|
| 148 |
97 |
Wageningen University |
Netherlands
|
| 149 |
154 |
City University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong
|
| 149 |
99 |
Queen Mary, University of London |
United Kingdom
|
| 151 |
133 |
Hokkaido University |
Japan
|
| 151 |
123 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
United States
|
| 151 |
147 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel
|
| 154 |
165 |
Université Libre de Bruxelles (French-speaking) |
Belgium
|
| 155 |
165 |
University of Science and Technology of China |
China
|
| 155 |
152 |
University of Notre Dame |
United States
|
| 157 |
72 |
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
France
|
| 158 |
140 |
Cranfield University |
United Kingdom
|
| 159 |
163 |
Michigan State University |
United States
|
| 159 |
130 |
Tufts University |
United States
|
| 161 |
120 |
Keio University |
Japan
|
| 161 |
48 |
Washington University in St. Louis |
United States
|
| 163 |
92 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Netherlands
|
| 163 |
179 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
China
|
| 165 |
201 |
Stuttgart University |
Germany
|
| 166 |
266 |
University of Calgary |
Canada
|
| 166 |
138 |
Vienna University of Technology |
Austria
|
| 168 |
156 |
Göttingen University |
Germany
|
| 168 |
82 |
Macquarie University |
Australia
|
| 170 |
291 |
Helsinki University of Technology |
Finland
|
| 171 |
238 |
University of Dundee |
United Kingdom
|
| 171 |
222 |
Karlsruhe University |
Germany
|
| 173 |
207 |
Bologna University |
 Italy
|
| 173 |
232 |
Groningen University |
Netherlands
|
| 175 |
124 |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
United States
|
| 175 |
284 |
São Paulo University |
 Brazil
|
| 177 |
448 |
University of Campinas |
Brazil
|
| 177 |
219 |
University College Dublin |
Ireland
|
| 177 |
215 |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
United States
|
| 180 |
190 |
Reading University |
United Kingdom
|
| 180 |
158 |
Waseda University |
Japan
|
| 182 |
172 |
RWTH Aachen University |
Germany
|
| 183 |
197 |
Sapienza University of Rome |
Italy
|
| 184 |
161 |
Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg) |
France
|
| 185 |
239 |
Leicester University |
United Kingdom
|
| 185 |
115 |
Twente University |
Netherlands
|
| 187 |
252 |
Antwerp University |
Belgium
|
| 188 |
333 |
Canterbury University |
New Zealand
|
| 188 |
177 |
Oslo University |
 Norway
|
| 190 |
258 |
Surrey University |
United Kingdom
|
| 191 |
255 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
United States
|
| 192 |
172 |
Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) |
Sweden
|
| 192 |
74 |
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City) |
 Mexico
|
| 194 |
190 |
Barcelona University |
 Spain
|
| 195 |
137 |
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Netherlands
|
| 195 |
192 |
Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane) |
Australia
|
| 197 |
147 |
Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg) |
Sweden
|
| 197 |
181 |
Kobe University |
Japan
|
| 199 |
196 |
Wollongong University |
Australia
|
| 200 |
257 |
University of Cape Town |
 South Africa
|
| 200 |
146 |
RMIT University (Melbourne) |
Australia
|
